Setting Up My Puppet Learning Environment
I’m a traditional wintel vmware engineer working in the UK in a team focusing on platform configuration automation for virtual and physical Windows hosted solutions. While looking at the VMware Cloud...
View ArticlePuppet for VMware Software Defined Datacenter
Now I am comfortable with using Puppet to perform configuration for Windows, I plan to progress and look at this for managing the configuration of vSphere.My hope is that by managing vSphere in a...
View ArticlePuppet Cloud Provisioning for VMware
The momentum is gaining for close integration between Puppet and vSphere. Just this morning I have been reading, https://puppetlabs.com/solutions/cloud-automation/compute/vmware...
View ArticleWindows Management Framework 5
It seems not so long ago that I started to look at how I could use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration to drive configuration declaratively by enforced policy to my Windows Servers at the...
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Setting Up CSC Hanlon – Part 1 – Infrastructure Config, Centos & DHCP Install
Since the company I work for CSC got a new CEO then CTO its changed direction and the latest change has been to full participate with the Open Source community. With this news shortly followed an...
View ArticleSetting Up CSC Hanlon – Part 2 – Installing Hanlon Pre-Reqs
This is a follow on post to Setting Up CSC Hanlon – Part 1 where I had got to the point of having DHCP setup and issuing next-server. So next step is to add a PXE and TFTP server, so first task is to...
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Setting Up CSC Hanlon – Part 3 – Finalising
This is a follow on post to Setting Up CSC Hanlon – Part 2 where I had got to the point of having pesky Ruby installed and Hanlon itself. Just need now to finalise all the parts and ensure they work...
View ArticleCSC Sessions @VMworld
Nice to see CSC’s schedule for VMworld San Fransisco is now published. Some great talks on Software Defined Data Center, and Storage As A Service offering, the partnership offering of vCloud Hybrid...
View ArticleDevOps And Scrumming Down With Jira – An Overview And Its Terminology...
While I worked with Agile as a tester when the concept first came out in 2002 shortly afterwards I joined a new company who in a new role in Infrastructure, operations if you will. To summarize my...
View ArticleDevOps And Scrumming Down With Jira – An Overview And Its Terminology...
While I worked with Agile as a tester when the concept first came out in 2002 shortly afterwards I joined a new company who in a new role in Infrastructure, operations if you will. To summarize my...
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